I just think at some point in my life, there is going to be a wonderful comedic opportunity to crush an apple and I should learn how or train now. e: Anybody else have any ridiculous goals right now?
I have 30 pictures of 6 months of weight loss pics. In all of them I’m standing in the same background in the same position. I’m willing to do a little bit of *cutting out" backgrounds and drawing nodes if I need to....
I’m watching both of these shows in their entirety and I don’t know why they’ve historically gotten so much backlash. One reviewer called TBL “a dumpster fire of a TV show” and others seem to think M6L is downright abusive. However, I can’t find anything particularly bad in either....
These are television shows that exploit people who have the mental illnesses which result in obesity.
You wouldn’t take a bunch of people with clinical depression and make a show called “smile, ya dipshit” about them.
Biggest loser is centered around the idea that losing weight is the answer to people’s problems when it’s not.
The one where they have these severely ill people living their lives is just so others can watch, leer, and feel quietly superior that “at least I’m not those people”.
Looking at what reddit was and what Reddit is now, I genuinely can’t imagine why anybody goes there anymore. The odd time I do some nice doomscrolling, I find that >99% of the content is re-heated and re-served. Nothing there informs me anymore. Nothing there inspires me. Nothing makes me think in a new way.
Every day the same thing ad nausea. Fascism bad. Sexism bad. Phobia bad. Musk bad. Orange man bad. Inflation bad. Boomers bad. Cats good. Name my rescue dog. Celebrity good. Celebrity dead.
I am reading the comments, and I am noticing that other people’s experiences are very different than mine.
For me, Google Search has reached the point where it will not even give me results for my search terms. I say this without an iota of hyperbole.
It’s so coincidental that this conversation comes up, but I actually sat there yesterday agog, looking at my desktop Firefox browser window… Scrolling through the entire search results page and realizing that not a single thing was even close to what I searched
It is noteworthy because I have been observing a steady decline, but it was the very first time I could make use of literally nothing that they gave back. In an unsettling way, the gravity of it hit me emotionally right there.
The most sinister is an almost inescapable one, where companies intentionally build things (larger appliances are a huge offender) to fail within 3 to 5 years.
It’s the “a poor man can’t afford cheap shoes” thing.
They love to “sell” this concept that making items cheaper means consumers can more frequently replace as their styles change. Fuck you, give me a white fridge that never breaks, I don’t care if I have to pay double up front.
When I was 18 and my buddy was 17, we went to the beach. He wouldn’t let me put sunscreen on his back because that would make him gay. What if a woman saw?
He ended up with a severly blistered back, horrible, serious burns.
Me, I went up to the cute girls and just said excuse me hehehe… I can’t reach my own back.
luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as...
So many people attacking OP and perhaps not remembering there was a time when nearly all flat panel TVs came on a pedestal mount. The designs were largely changed to mitigate claims and liability.
At one time it was discovered that there was no nesting limit.
And of course that caused people to start the “bottles of beer thread”.
We got something like 2,000 or 3,000 1,300 into it before literal devs came into the thread and begged us to stop “you are breaking Reddit”.
That resulted in the thread being shut down and nesting limits implemented. What those limits are, I do not know. I just know at one time they didn’t exist.
Please understandnim asking this question from a genuine place. I dont want the quora answer, i want the tech savvy, security expert minds of my fellow lemmings. If thats ok?...
Just a personal story to bring one example into focus.
I got sober 8 years ago and never talked about it online until I was about 4 years sober. Never saw a single promotion for anything related to alcohol…
Until the day I made a single comment on Reddit telling my story to help support another person who was just starting their own sobriety journey.
And like magic, all promoted communities to me were alcohol related. Even though I’m an ublock user, when I would selectively disable it every advertisement I saw online was related to booze.
So even though there are ethical applications for my data, I found that it was used in an attempt to target me based on human frailties.
First off, you have to act like a massive shit-loaf to get perma’ed from Reddit in the first place. Now you’re declaring your love for this community because you can’t get back into Reddit.
Our city’s most profitable Rotten Ronny’s closed down with the public excuse that it’s not profitable.
This location was in the heart of downtown, directly across the street from a University with a daily population of about 30,000
The location was so busy they had two kitchens - one upstairs and one in the basement where they fed orders up on a conveyor system.
If you made the mistake of going there from 11am-1pm you were going to wait a minimum of 10 minutes just to get into the door (pre app days), another 10 in line, and 10 more for your order.
The real problem was that they were unionizing. Uh oh!! A new Rotten Ron’s was opened next door 18 months later. Weird how they’d open again in such an unprofitable location!!!
Perhaps I’m being difficult, but I’m not deriving pleasure from documentaries the way I used to. I realize I’m speaking in generalities, please humor me....
I want to be able to crush an apple with one hand
I just think at some point in my life, there is going to be a wonderful comedic opportunity to crush an apple and I should learn how or train now. e: Anybody else have any ridiculous goals right now?
I was just remembering the time my grandfather's girlfriend tried to give me 5 gigantic paintings
They were both in their early 80s and had been together long enough they decided to move in together....
I made braised pork tacos with fresh corn tortillas, homemade slaw and pico de gallo (lemmy.world)
I made a Hassleback potato. Visually appealing but it wasn't worth the effort. (lemmy.world)
What is something that was explained to you wrong such that you could never understand it, and you received a clarifying explanation that finally made sense?
Software to do morph animation with a series of weight loss progress pictures.
I have 30 pictures of 6 months of weight loss pics. In all of them I’m standing in the same background in the same position. I’m willing to do a little bit of *cutting out" backgrounds and drawing nodes if I need to....
Why do people hate TV shows like The Biggest Loser and My 600-lb Life?
I’m watching both of these shows in their entirety and I don’t know why they’ve historically gotten so much backlash. One reviewer called TBL “a dumpster fire of a TV show” and others seem to think M6L is downright abusive. However, I can’t find anything particularly bad in either....
This was the first result on Google (lemmy.ml)
Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B (go.theregister.com)
Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else?
It seems like all packaged foods do this now (lemmy.world)
I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.
In what ways are people today being convinced to spend money beyond their means?
I made a poteefnut (lemmy.world)
Yesterday’s leftover beef and broiled potato, mashed and formed into a donut-inspired shape and baked It was delicious.
What's the most absurd thing you've seen someone refuse to do because of toxic masculinity?
Why do all the new TVs expect me to have a platform AS WIDE as the fucking thing?? Fucking shit!! God awful absolutely dumb thoughtless design choice (lemmy.world)
luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as...
Fun fact: Lemmy supports up to 99 nested comments (i.imgur.com)
What reasons are there for being concerned about companies like google and meta etc collecting data and tracking me?
Please understandnim asking this question from a genuine place. I dont want the quora answer, i want the tech savvy, security expert minds of my fellow lemmings. If thats ok?...
Tried joining Reddit again because of lack of activity in very niche communities, got banned again ,_, (lemmy.world)
Reddit improved their anti-ban evasion system, cuz it’s the sixth or more failed attempt at evading a permanent ban. Never more, I am staying here....
Remember when Target blamed theft for closing stores? It's all lies. (popular.info)
Never trust the corporations excuses....
Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?
One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:...
What game did you find in a bargain bin that turned out to be awesome? For me it was Z by Bitmap Brothers which I got at Zellers for $0.47
If you’re thinking of buying Z now - the modern remake is a careless trash port FYI
I'd like to find documentaries that are stylistically very different than the apparent norm.
Perhaps I’m being difficult, but I’m not deriving pleasure from documentaries the way I used to. I realize I’m speaking in generalities, please humor me....